Abstract

Probing mosquitoes salivate before ingesting blood, and malaria sporozoites are transmitted during this phase of feeding. Large and small Aedes aegypti infected with Plasmodium gallinaceum were allowed to probe briefly on a series of 3 naive chicks. Large mosquitoes were more infective overall, but there was no difference in the ability of either size class to infect the first host. Large mosquitoes were more likely than small mosquitoes to infect more than one host during serial feeding.

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2011-07-03 00:16:35

Identifier

cbarchive_103156_mosquitosizeandmultipletransmi1992

Identifier-ark

ark:/13960/t07w78z4c

Issue

4

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true

Ocr

ABBYY FineReader 8.0

Original_publication

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Pages

386-388

Ppi

325

Publication_type

Journal Article

Rights_license_name

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

Rights_license_url

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights_statement

Permission to host granted on behalf of The American Mosquito Control Association

Rights_status

in copyright

Source_organization

The American Mosquito Control Association

Source_project

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Url

http://citebank.org/node/103156

Year

1992

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